Former Westboro Baptist member: 'Church prayed for people to die'

View full sizeCounter-protesters holding American flags line the street outside the Niceville, Florida, United Methodist Church on Friday, July 15, 2011. The protesters showed up to form a human shield against the threat of picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church at the memorial service for the Teutenberg family. (Nick Tomecek, Daily News)

Libby Phelps Alvarez, granddaughter of the man who founded Westboro Baptist Church, told the "Today' show she was among those who protested at soldiers' funerals, and that members of the church "think that they are the only ones who are going to heaven ... "

“There was a point when we started praying for people to die,” Alvarez said of the church in the interview. “I didn't actually do that but I was around when they did it.”